monkeylizard

Tonight at 7pm at Grace Church, 901 Long Hollow Pike, Gallatin

I'd say it's similar to slightly higher quality than Academy, but with REI prices. Kind of like Bass Pro. Just like Bass Pro, the prices on most guns are just stupid.

It might be wide open. Many ranges restrict membership levels intentionally so that they don't have 500 people showing up on Saturday morning to use 20 lanes. Strategic Edge caps their numbers and it's currently closed to new members. The relocating will certainly give the club more flexibility, but I hope they don't throw the limits completely out the window. I'm renewing for 2017, but I may have to drop that for 2018 and open a spot for someone else depending on where they relocate. It's already an hour drive each way for me and I don't get there as often as I'd like. If they end up in some place like Westmoreland or Trousdale Co., I just can't see that happening for me.

There's an easy solution to that. Stop eating salads.

It depends on a lot of things, but mostly it's about what are you trying to protect your stuff from and is it your first, last, and only line of defense? If it's going to be behind solid doors with good locks, tucked in a tight space with little access to the sides, back, or top, bolted in place, and protected by an alarm to police & fire with a fast response time (and throw in a good guard dog while we're at it), and you're in a low crime area, and there's a fire hydrant very close to your home, then those will suit most people just fine. But don't have delusions about these entry-level safes protecting from an experienced and prepared thief. If it's going to be sitting along an open wall in a garage and not bolted down properly, with a bunch of power/hand tools nearby, and the cops are making arrests in your neighborhood on a daily basis, then you'll probably want something with a thicker body. 12 and 14 ga. steel gets opened up quickly by a pick axe. Kitchens and garages often burn the hottest during a house fire due to the presence of gas lines and various chemicals. The further it is from gas lines and chemicals, the better.

This ^^^ When hiking, you use the Mt. House as an "entree" but you'll supplement it with something else like energy bars, fruit, trail mix, etc.

More of the distinction of the perpetrator rather than the target, but yes.

I wasn't disagreeing that it was terrorism. Look more closely at the last 3 words of my post. In context, the discussion was about deploying (or not) the military over domestic terrorism and Waco was mentioned. I was implying the rhetorical question "Why would the .gov deploy military assets against themselves?"

Yeah. Nobody would want to break in to steal patchouli oil and stale granola.

Since when was Waco a terrorist attack on the US?

I don't even like having the dealership sticker on my cars.

According to Lexis Nexis, 55-8-110 as quoted above is still valid. Maybe keep a printed laminated copy of 55-8-110 in your wallet or in a bag on your bike if you have one. https://www.lexisnexis.com/hottopics/tncode/

If only it were that simple. I cancelled almost 2 weeks ago and still no refund from Atlas.

Who knows....we may all get coolers on or around December 15th....

August, September and October are usually our driest months. I don't know the right way to do a fall crop here, but if you're planning on any kind of regular rainfall right now through the next 6 weeks or so, you may be out of luck. http://www.usclimatedata.com/climate/nashville/tennessee/united-states/ustn0357

My card company (USAA) stepped up. They have credited my account. If Atlas ever does a refund or actually ships the product in December, I'll square up with them. In the meantime, I'm good to go. USAA Rocks.

Interesting article on some women starting small businesses to cater to fashion and/or holsters for the female shooter. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/does-this-gun-make-me-look-fat-firearms-spur-fashion-niche/

I don't get it. What's so special about this? Isn't that how all of you hunt? I know that's how I do it.

I think 10-Ring meant it as a joke. One I was just about to make myself when I realized he beat me to it. It's Tipton Co. so $500 sounds about right.

The best one in the Comments:

Here's Virginia's. Very similar to the proposed TN one.

Yep. Those oversized ones were used to demonstrate to trainees how the firearms worked. They started in WW2 and AFAIK were phased out of training during Vietnam. The cutaways allowed visibility, and the size allowed an instructor to teach multiple trainees at a time and made the finer parts easier to see. They're "functional" in that all of the parts move including the detachable magazines, but they don't actually fire ammunition. They're quite collectible and getting harder to find every year. I think some had plastic rounds so the trainee could see how the action cycled and stripped the next one off the top, but those may have been a later development like around the Vietnam era. IIRC, the metal parts are mostly (all?) aluminum. I have read that there was a huge wood and aluminum bayonet for the Garand training model, but I've never seen one.

My wife's uncle died a few years ago and the family is finally starting to go through his old shop. We've come across some old ammo and black powder. The ammo is in various conditions. Some is in the factory box and looks fine. Some was just tossed loose in a drawer, tackle box, wrapped in a shop rag, coat pocket, etc and have varying levels of corrosion. Some 22LR, some pistol and rifle centerfire, and some 12ga. shells. Plus we found a few containers of black powder. I'd guess somewhere in the 5-10 lbs. range all in all. Unbeknownst to anyone else, he may have done some reloading as we found some RCBS dies, but have not yet found a press (lots more to go through) Given the storage conditions and the fact that stuff in factory boxes may actually be reloads, I wouldn't want to run any of it through my own guns and think the safest thing to do is to destroy it. We're talking about maybe 200-300 rounds of various calibers and 3 dozen or so 12ga. shells. Not exactly an arsenal. Any suggestions on the best way to get rid of this stuff, especially the BP? I have zero experience with BP and have only heard horror stories about people messing with it who don't know what they're doing. One or two of the BP containers appears to be factory sealed, but it's all at least 30 years old and stored in less than ideal conditions. Not wet, just a dirty uninsulated workshop.

I'm still thinking about it. Not because of the content, but because I think a bright yellow tag may look godawful on my car.